Punishment Quotes

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

Sam Heughan

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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Naguib Mahfouz

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Hannah Arendt

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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B. F. Skinner

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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Joel Edgerton

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I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

Jeff Lindsay

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The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

Tom Tancredo

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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Martin Van Buren

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If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Jayne Mansfield

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Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

Christopher McDougall

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The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

Bryan Fogel

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The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.

Thomas Becket

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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Lionel Jospin

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

James Madison

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

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Some courts have said moving an employee to a basement or closet usually amounts to punishment. But others have said this is a decision that should be made case by case. How nice is the basement office? How big is the closet?

David Fahrenthold

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Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

Billy Strayhorn

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

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I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

Jake LaMotta

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Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles

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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Benjamin Tucker

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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

Samantha Power

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